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MH17: When It Lost Contact and Crashed

7/17/2014 4:44PM

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 departed Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur at 4:15 PM local time on Thursday. About four hours later, it crashed near the border of Russia and the Ukraine. WSJ's Jason Bellini walks through the timeline of the tragedy.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight seventeen departed Amsterdam twelve fifteen p m local time Thursday ... these photos show the plane taking off from sheeple airport ... four hours into its flight to quality for ... Ukraine air traffic control report losing contact with flight an age seventeen ... shortly thereafter the plane crashed in the Ukrainian city of Torrance run twenty miles from the Russian Ukraine for ... the sketch Atlantic wall on or International Airport at six ten a m local time ... just after midnight in Amsterdam ... the Boeing seven seven seven had two hundred eighty passengers and fifteen crew members of the same model aircraft as the still missing one for Malaysia Airlines flight three seventy ... this footage shows the smoke rising after the plane crash ... it went down while flying the height of about thirty three thousand feet ... official cause of the crash is still being investigated ... the boat Ukraine government ... and the pro Russian separatists there fighting have blamed each other for the disaster ... there been no credible claims of responsibility ...